Skateboard + Blog = SKLOG?
Ramblings From the Road... and my desk
I wanted a clever name for this blog and as you can see, I failed. The problem is a skateboard blog is no more a sklog than skateboard art is "skart". It just doesn't flow like "fugly" or "shart" - both of which are concatenations that are both funny and clever. Some day I'll be funny and clever. Until then, just read the damn sklog blog or whatever the Hell you want to call it. Thanks!
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August 2010
- 8/25/10
- Big Mirrors = Big Skateboard Stickers
I've no idea why this didn't occur to me earlier, but my Jeep has huge side mirrors that make the forward-facing sides perfect for a large skate stickers. Maybe the "bumper sticker" mentality didn't let me get past the bumper - who knows.
- 8/23/10
- I'm Picking Out a Thermos For You
Being old enough to have seen Steve Martin sing "I'm picking out a Thermos for you" in 1979's The Jerk must have made an impression on me.
Every year when the Summer came to a close and it was time to buy school supplies, the first thing on my list was a new Peanut's lunchbox with thermos. Those were the days. Hell, lunch boxes today rarely come with a thermos. As a kid I just knew that a thermos kept my juice cold all day; end of story.
I had no idea Thermos was a brand.
Like any ubiquitous brand, it's name has become a noun. However, not every thermos is a Thermos®. As a discerning adult, I know that Thermos® brand is a cut above the garden-variety thermos.
My coffee mug had reached a point where cleaning it was a waste of time. It had become a rusted piece of junk (the inside was fairly clean). All the travel mugs I saw were plastic and looked like they'd fall apart in a week. Then I found a Thermos brand travel mug and the brand came back to memory.
"Fuck yeah! Get a Thermos brand mug!"
Long story short I bought another style of Thermos mug, a food container and a classic "thermos" Thermos. I can't say enough good things about the Thermos brand. High quality, durable and highly functional! Go get one (or two). You'll thank me later.
I'm so stoked about my new Thermos collection that I wrote a Thermos® article. - 8/20/10
- Santa Cruz Landshark
I always keep an eye out for unusual boards. When I saw the Santa Cruz Landshark in the CCS catalog, I had to have it. The UPS guy bounced it onto my porch last night!
Seeing that it came with blue Road Rider wheels - it was a done deal!
Straight from the shaping room of Santa Cruz surfboards. This high performance twin fin has evolved to rip on land!
Specs:- Flat Landshark Cruzer concave
- 8.8" x 27.5"
- 16.5" wheelbase
- 2.7" nose
- 4.3" kick tail
What's not to like? This little board fucking rips!
- 8/13/10
- Bundle up Wookiee-Style to Skate on Planet Hoth
If your passion for skateboarding takes yo to locales with sub-zero weather, I can't think of a more stylish way to keep the heat than a fury-as-all-hell Chewbacca coat!
For Star Wars geeks and Sci-fi nuts who need to survive cold climates, like George Lucas' planet, Hoth, Ya gotta have a Wookie Jacket from Adidas! Am I right? fuck yeah!
I have not found any ordering info anywhere, so I suspect this hairy coat is due for release sometime this Fall. There is some Star Wars stuff on the Adidas site, but no mention of Wookiee jackets. Keep an eye out for it because they'll go fast and are likely in limited production. The cool stuff always is.
Always eager to learn random useless facts... I now know that "Wookiee" is spelled with two 'E's.Live & learn and may the force be with you... in your quest for fashion.
9/1/10 update: The Wookiee coat has shown up on the Adidas web site and is listed as the "Star Wars Manager's Coat". Use "star wars" as a keyword in their search and you'll find it. Here's a rear-view of the Chewbacca Wookiee coat - 8/6/10
- Paddle Boarding Takes off On Water and Wheels
The first time I saw someone paddle boarding on our local pond, I assumed it was a malfunctioning sunfish sailboat whose owner was trying to reach shore. It never occured to me that standing on a surfboard with a paddle could be sold as a "board sport". Guess I was wrong.
I suppose I'd rather fall off a board into the water than onto concrete, but then there's my phobia of drowning which doesn't happen on concrete.
So, anyway...
It seemed a good time to remind folks of "Land Paddling". What?!? Yeah, grab a longboard & a Kahuna Big Stick (Check out the Kahuna Creations web site for Big Sticks) and you too can do it on dry land.
July 2010
- 7/21/10
- Finding Chuck Norris is Tougher Than Finding Animal Chin
The popularity of Chuck Norris Facts has prompted all sorts of "me-too" alterations by folks large and small to be part of the Chuck Norris post-career phenomenon. For skaters who have sought to find Animal Chin, the search for Chuck Norris may prove more elusive. You might try Google, but even the overlords there don't mess with chuck.
Give it a try yourself at google.com - enter "Find Chuck Norris" in the search box and click "I'm Feeling Lucky". - 7/19/10
- Mastering Cell Phone Photography
With everyone hurrying out to buy a new smart phone that does everything except make a fucking phone call, we thought we'd offer a brief primer on how to properly use your camera phone.
- 7/15/10
- Dita Von Teese Redefines Hydration & Pisses-off Tree Huggers
You've got a cooler full of beer, but when skating a pool out in the hot sun you have to have water. The buzz is good, but dehydration can knock you on your ass on a sweltering day. Best solution is to keep the water flowing. But water isn't a cool or sexy beverage. It holds little appeal for the most part.
I'm no fan of bottled water myself, especially when it can be obtained for free from a garden hose which is where most of it probably comes from anyway. The watery folks at Perrier seem to have a similar quandary- "How do we sex-up our boring-ass water?"
The answer seems to be finding a sexy burlesque model to bath in the stuff. Enter Dita Von Teese.
Apparently the tree-hugging crowd calls this display a waste of a natural resource and so forth. They fail to see the value of Ms. Von Teese dousing herself in Perrier. Perhaps this lack of foresight is why their brand needs a make-over in the first place. However you look at it, Marilyn Manson's ex looks pretty good on the website featuring Dita's watery Perrier antics.
I guess they figure the kiddies don't drink their fizzy water so why not trump the brand with some softcore porn. If this campaign fails they can always re-tool the footage and have Ms. Von Teese use the bottle like a dildo. That should boost sales, right? Or get the marketing VP at Perrier fired!
- 7/12/10
- Skatelite- Not Just for Skate Ramps
When I hear Skatelite I think of an awesomely durable outer layer that protects skateboard ramps. "Skatelite blends the right elements of speed, friction, durability and pliability in a premium surface material preferred by the world's top action sports athletes." according to their website.
I'm convinced that someone at Dwell magazine is a skater who takes a sly joy in weaving elements of skateboarding into a seemingly skate-free home mag. Articles with a skateboard slant show up on their pages way too often to be mere coincidence.
I started reading Teaser Trailer, in the July/August issue of Dwell Magazine, about shabby construction trailers that lacked the finesse of the construction projects they shared job sites with. Those typically crappy looking job site trailers just weren't cutting it so a builder had this custom trailer made and encased the outside in Skatelite for durability and a sleek black look.
Seems to me that some sort of ramp should have been incorporated in the design, but I guess that didn't fit in with the chairs from herman Miller.
Inside the trailer. You were expecting fake wood paneling and a rug with full on 70's colors covered in grit. Pretty damn slick for a construction trailer.
- 7/9/10
- Eat Twizzlers Like a Pornstar
If your sugar-rush includes Twizzlers, you should know that there's no reason to be boring about it. Just because the original manufacturer, Young and Smylie confectionery, was founded way back in 1845 doesn't mean you have to be old-School.
Do it like you mean it!
Eat Twizzlers like a pornstar!
- 7/8/10
- Ride A Skateboard - Don't End Up Like Lindsay Lohan
Some celebrities just can't catch a break. Take for instance Lindsay Lohan who had a promising career as a child-actor and did what many of them do - fuck up. It's not enough to make a ton of money and live a life of fame. These twits (or twats, as the case may be) have to self-destruct in the public eye.
Lohan, who ruined Herbie the Love Bug as Maggie Peyton, will get a swanky prison jumpsuit and the scorn of prisoners and guards for 90 days. Maybe if she'd had a skateboard during her formative years, she wouldn't be all the things that skaters are accused of - you know: loser, junkie, deviant, etc...
Buy your kid a skateboard - it'll keep him/her out of trouble and help in the global fight of all parents: Don't end up like Lindsay Lohan. - 7/4/10
- Happy Fourth of July!
Don't forget:
- Roman Candles often shoot out of both ends.
- Emergency Rooms are very busy on holidays.
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